THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments that the administration intends to support an effort next week at the United Nations to set up an independent commission, under UN auspices, to investigate Israel's behavior in the Gaza flotilla incident. The White House has apparently shrugged off concerns from elsewhere in the U.S. government that a) this is an extraordinary singling out of Israel, since all kinds of much worse incidents happen around the world without spurring UN investigations; b) that the investigation will be one-sided, focusing entirely on Israeli behavior and not on Turkey or on Hamas; and c) that this sets a terrible precedent for outside investigations of incidents involving U.S. troops or intelligence operatives as we conduct our own war on terror.

While UN Ambassador Susan Rice is reported to have played an important role in pushing for U.S. support of a UN investigation, the decision is, one official stressed, of course the president's. The government of Israel has been consulting with the U.S. government on its own Israeli investigative panel, to be led by a retired supreme court justice, that would include respected international participants, including one from the U.S. But the Obama administration is reportedly saying that such a “kosher panel” is not good enough to satisfy the international community, or the Obama White House.

Sheer brilliance! The ultimate patriot's handbook. Sharp, well-written
and to-the-point. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer lay bare Barack
Hussein Obama's radical, anti-America agenda and how to stop it. No
true American's library will be complete without this book.

- Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Foreign
Influence.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

At a time when the US media – the traditional watchdogs of American
democracy have transformed themselves into President Barack Obama’s
lapdogs, the new media, on the
Internet plays a crucial role in bringing accurate news to the public’s
attention. At Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller does this on a daily basis.
In the Post-American Presidency, Geller shines her laser on President
Barack Obama – his life, his values, his friends and his perceptions of
the country he leads. What she reports will disturb not only every
American who believes in that America is the Shining City on the Hill
and that the American people are what Abraham Lincoln referred to as
“the almost chosen people.” It should also disturb people around the
world who recognize that the international system stops working when the
American Atlas shirks the burden of its uniqueness.

The Czechs, Israelis, Indians and other US allies were the first to
realize we were heading toward a post-American world. Now it’s time for
Americans to wake up to the realities of this President’s transformation
of the country and its global role. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer
are two of the most incisive analysts of events at home and abroad, and
you could not ask for better guides to where “hope”, “change” and czars
are taking us – and what Americans can do about it.

--Mark Steyn is an international
bestselling author, columnist and leading Canadian human rights
activist.

This book is a chilling analysis of how the policy of president Barack
Obama is chipping away at the very foundation of America's leading role
in the world. It exposes his philosophy of near universal ‘moral equivalency’; a philosophy that
is a dead ringer for the cultural relativism that has been poisoning
Europe for the past decades. America is the last man standing and it is
vital that the people in Europe adopt the attitude of proud American
citizens and learn that it is not shameful to be proud of one’s
heritage. This book is incredibly fascinating and at the same time holds
a deeply disturbing message -- a message we should all take to heart.

Barack Obama is a revolutionary on a mission to cut America down to
size. One size fits all, to be precise. His post-sovereign America is a
country no different from any other: economically bankrupt, morally rudderless, with nothing
exceptional about it besides the heights from which it tumbles and the
remorselessness of its choice – his choice – to decline. With their
characteristic attention to detail, clarity and fearlessness, Pamela
Geller and Robert Spencer assay
the wreckage. The Post-American Presidency is must reading for every
concerned American who needs to know why we’re in this perilous moment,
and where we’re headed if we don’t take our exceptional country back.

--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review
legal affairs editor and bestselling author of Willful Blindness: A
Memoir of the Jihad

Barack Obama is the most radical individual ever to occupy the White
House. This excellent book by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer explains
exactly what that means and why its implications are fraught with such
dangers for this great Republic.

---David Horowitz,
conservative activist,
coauthor of Destructive Generation and author of Radical Son

This
book carries forward the ongoing and increasingly widespread critique of Barack
Obama as our first post-American President. What it recounts is disturbing, and
its broader implications are more disturbing still. -- from the Foreword by Ambassador John
Bolton

When my book The Post-American Presidency hits
bookstore shelves, I'll be available for talks, debates, book signings -- you
name it. You can make this happen! Grab a local paper and find the names of
local organizations that are bringing authors to town. Contact them and
suggest...Atlas. They can find me at writeatlas@aol.com. Once we agree on terms
and date, I'll be right there (I'll even drag Robert along if you want :). Can't
wait to see you!

Here's the book jacket -- of the much awaited, authoritative book on Obama. Accept no substitutes. Don't settle for also-rans. Go to the original source. Pre-order it now! Scroll and look what Geert Wilders, Mark Steyn, Caroline Glick, Brad Thor, Andrew McCarthy, and David Horowitz have said about the book.

Sheer brilliance! The ultimate patriot's handbook. Sharp, well-written
and to-the-point. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer lay bare Barack
Hussein Obama's radical, anti-America agenda and how to stop it. No
true American's library will be complete without this book.

- Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Foreign Influence.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

At a time when the US media – the traditional watchdogs of American democracy have transformed themselves into President Barack Obama’s lapdogs, the new media, on the Internet plays a crucial role in bringing accurate news to the public’s attention. At Atlas Shrugs, Pamela Geller does this on a daily basis.
In the Post-American Presidency, Geller shines her laser on President Barack Obama – his life, his values, his friends and his perceptions of the country he leads. What she reports will disturb not only every American who believes in that America is the Shining City on the Hill and that the American people are what Abraham Lincoln referred to as “the almost chosen people.” It should also disturb people around the world who recognize that the international system stops working when the American Atlas shirks the burden of its uniqueness.

The Czechs, Israelis, Indians and other US allies were the first to realize we were heading toward a post-American world. Now it’s time for Americans to wake up to the realities of this President’s transformation of the country and its global role. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are two of the most incisive analysts of events at home and abroad, and you could not ask for better guides to where “hope”, “change” and czars are taking us – and what Americans can do about it.

--Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, columnist and leading Canadian human rights activist.

This book is a chilling analysis of how the policy of president Barack Obama is chipping away at the very foundation of America's leading role in the world. It exposes his philosophy of near universal ‘moral equivalency’; a philosophy that is a dead ringer for the cultural relativism that has been poisoning Europe for the past decades. America is the last man standing and it is vital that the people in Europe adopt the attitude of proud American citizens and learn that it is not shameful to be proud of one’s heritage. This book is incredibly fascinating and at the same time holds a deeply disturbing message -- a message we should all take to heart.

Barack Obama is a revolutionary on a mission to cut America down to size. One size fits all, to be precise. His post-sovereign America is a country no different from any other: economically bankrupt, morally rudderless, with nothing exceptional about it besides the heights from which it tumbles and the remorselessness of its choice – his choice – to decline. With their characteristic attention to detail, clarity and fearlessness, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer assay the wreckage. The Post-American Presidency is must reading for every concerned American who needs to know why we’re in this perilous moment, and where we’re headed if we don’t take our exceptional country back.

--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review legal affairs editor and bestselling author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad

Barack Obama is the most radical individual ever to occupy the White
House. This excellent book by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer explains
exactly what that means and why its implications are fraught with such
dangers for this great Republic.

---David Horowitz, conservative activist,
coauthor of Destructive Generation and author of Radical Son

In a quick pre-Frankfurt six-figure sale, Mitchell Ivers at Simon & Schuster/Threshold acquired world English-language rights to The Post-American Presidency by Pamela Geller, the popular Atlas Shrugged blogger, and four-time New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer (The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam [and the Crusades]). Scott Mendel at the Mendel Media group did the deal and says the book will appeal far beyond Threshold's conservative base. Publication is expected in July 20